4 ms·
Unless they disallowed vendors from charging for games made by the "open" dev kit, thereby preserving the licensing fee. Or just eliminate the fee in its entir
by Shamiq 18y ago
Unless they disallowed vendors from charging for games made by the "open" dev kit, thereby preserving the licensing fee.
Or just eliminate the fee in its entirety and take a slice of the revenue (or marginally larger slice).
I don't see how lowering cost of entry could be anything but advantageous to console makers.
- Radix 18y agoOn the first thought: I don't see it,they would still have to contend with a growing community of people who mostly want to play homebrew and open source games. On the second: Maybe, but that might be seen as a barrier to publishing a game made for fun that just happened to be good. "Eh, I'll just give it away, I was only doing it for fun anyway."